I am one of the many small business people who trade at the new Providore Place market and precinct. I also sat in on the launch of Living City Stage 2. I spend a lot of time serving and speaking about the development (both Providore and Living City) with locals and visitors alike. I’m aware of the discussions around the adequacy and location of parking to service the new hotel development and I would simply offer this observation. A while back I was in the Adelaide city centre with a vehicle and staying at one of the major hotels. I did not need to find parking – it was taken care of by a valet. Like most inner city hotels around the country, parking is off site. To provide parking underneath for all patrons is simply not an option for most premises. With the new Devonport hotel it seems the best of both worlds. There is undercover parking very close in the new undercover car park that is part of the now built Stage 1, and for those who do not want a short stroll through Market Square and the precinct, I’m sure a valet will be pleased to meet you at the front door and take care of the vehicle for you – just as it’s done everywhere else. Andrew Leary, Turners Beach Steve Martin wrote he visited the Saint Johns Anglican Church at Northdown near Devonport and was outraged because of the sale of this property and pleaded to people to sign his petition to save the church (Adv., Dec. 17). What Steve Martin did not mention was why the church and many more Anglican properties across the state were being sold. Seventy-eight properties including 55 churches were being considered for sale to help fund the redress for survivors of child sexual abuse. How remiss of you Steve. The only thing outrageous about this is how the Anglican, Catholic, Jehovah's Witnesses and many other churches have stood by knowingly knowing their clergyman have been sexually assaulting children. The figure of redress – $150,000 or any other amount – will never take away the pain but this should be a minimum amount they get, I am sure a good lawyer could get them more. In future Steve Martin tell the whole truth maybe this was the politician coming out in you. Bricks and mortar versus innocent children, I know where I stand. Peter J Crowe, Somerset Australia Day celebrates the day pioneers came to a barren, undeveloped continent and with hard work and persistence gave us what we have today, and 40 000 years of Indigenous isolation came to an end. We celebrate on January 26 and to change it is to want to change history. The campaign against January 26 for Australia Day should be recognised for what it is: politicised and anti-Australian. To call it Invasion Day is patently nonsensical and a big fat lie. The present government, unlike the ALP and Greens, opted out of an abhorrent migrant scheme where UN Human Rights want borders to be open and countries will lose their sovereignty. Nobody has the authority to make changes – we can hold our rulers to account - our Constitution and the Magna Carta say so. Marilyn Quirk, Heybridge

Letters to the Editor

Parking not a problem

I am one of the many small business people who trade at the new Providore Place market and precinct. I also sat in on the launch of Living City Stage 2.

I spend a lot of time serving and speaking about the development (both Providore and Living City) with locals and visitors alike.

I’m aware of the discussions around the adequacy and location of parking to service the new hotel development and I would simply offer this observation.

A while back I was in the Adelaide city centre with a vehicle and staying at one of the major hotels.

I did not need to find parking – it was taken care of by a valet. Like most inner city hotels around the country, parking is off site.

To provide parking underneath for all patrons is simply not an option for most premises.

With the new Devonport hotel it seems the best of both worlds. There is undercover parking very close in the new undercover car park that is part of the now built Stage 1, and for those who do not want a short stroll through Market Square and the precinct, I’m sure a valet will be pleased to meet you at the front door and take care of the vehicle for you – just as it’s done everywhere else.

Andrew Leary, Turners Beach

Rationale for sales

Steve Martin wrote he visited the Saint Johns Anglican Church at Northdown near Devonport and was outraged because of the sale of this property and pleaded to people to sign his petition to save the church (Adv., Dec. 17).

What Steve Martin did not mention was why the church and many more Anglican properties across the state were being sold.

Seventy-eight properties including 55 churches were being considered for sale to help fund the redress for survivors of child sexual abuse. How remiss of you Steve.

The only thing outrageous about this is how the Anglican, Catholic, Jehovah's Witnesses and many other churches have stood by knowingly knowing their clergyman have been sexually assaulting children.

The figure of redress – $150,000 or any other amount – will never take away the pain but this should be a minimum amount they get, I am sure a good lawyer could get them more. In future Steve Martin tell the whole truth maybe this was the politician coming out in you.

Bricks and mortar versus innocent children, I know where I stand.

Peter J Crowe, Somerset

Invasion Day ‘a big fat lie’

Australia Day celebrates the day pioneers came to a barren, undeveloped continent and with hard work and persistence gave us what we have today, and 40 000 years of Indigenous isolation came to an end.

We celebrate on January 26 and to change it is to want to change history.

The campaign against January 26 for Australia Day should be recognised for what it is: politicised and anti-Australian.

To call it Invasion Day is patently nonsensical and a big fat lie.

The present government, unlike the ALP and Greens, opted out of an abhorrent migrant scheme where UN Human Rights want borders to be open and countries will lose their sovereignty.

Nobody has the authority to make changes – we can hold our rulers to account - our Constitution and the Magna Carta say so.